Patron saint festival In 50 days
Feast of Saint Nicholas of Bari
📅 Every year, on 6 December
On 6 December Canolo celebrates its patron Saint Nicholas of Bari; the municipal territory is also home to the Santuario della Madonna di Prestarona.
Canolo is a village that moved. Ever since 1806, when the woods around it were felled without restraint, the ground began to shift: floods in 1880 and 1881, which carried away even the retaining wall just built; earthquakes in 1894, 1905, 1907 and 1908, which brought down twenty-five houses and the church twice.
The flood of October 1951 killed three people, and in April 1952 a decree ordered the village to be moved up to the plains of the Melia. So Canolo Nuova was born, which has become more populous than the old village; but the seat of the comune stayed below. The name comes from the Greek for channel, and the first settlement is said to date from 952, when the Arabs took Gerace and people fled inland.
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Su Nuraxi 📍 Barumini · 15 km A UNESCO site since 1997, Su Nuraxi is Sardinia's grandest Nuragic village, built around a 17th-century BCE basalt towe… Chiesa dell'Immacolata Concezione 📍 Barumini · 16 km Barumini's late gothic parish church, a step away from the famous nuraghe. Chiesa di Santa Tecla 📍 Barumini · 16 km The Barumini church below street level, whose steps became a bench. Chiesa di Santa Lucia 📍 Barumini · 16 km Barumini's sixteenth-century church, with its loggia and two old bells.